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Welcome Choristers to 2012!!!
Welcome Back Vivace!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday break and a fantastic start to 2012. Vivace! will be starting up again tomorrow, Monday, January 2nd with our regular rehearsal schedule (V! Kids: 4pm, V! Mixed: 5pm and Cathedrals: 6pm). We have a terrific season planned for our Winter segment with our “Mozart n’ Mischief” concert work scheduled for our March concert and for the Bethel School District Choral Festival – sooo fun!!!
Remember, tomorrow we will be having our open auditions to welcome new choristers to Vivace! So go to school and seek out your musical friends and invite them to join you at Vivace! For Mid-Year Registration Forms and Tuition and Fee Information, please visit the Documents Tab in the left Navigation bar.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone back tomorrow and some new faces...spread the word! :)
Sincerely,
Your Choir Manager and the Vivace! Staff
Revised Call Times and Christmas Concert Information
Dear Vivace! Families and Choristers,
I would like to provide some updates and revisions for tomorrow's (Sunday, December 11th) Christmas Concert at Kilworth Chapel on the campus of UPS. Kilworth Chapel is located on the corner of N 18th St and N Warner St in Tacoma, WA. The concert will begin at 4pm, with doors opening for general seating starting at 3:30PM. If you have not already purchased your tickets at rehearsal, tickets may be purchased at the door starting at 3pm. Adult tickets are $10 and children under 12 years old are $8.
We asked that all our parents and patrons coming for the concert, please enjoy some coffee and refreshments, to keep warm, on the steps of the chapel or in your vehicles, as the choirs will be in the sanctuary rehearsing. The doors of the chapel will be closed to patrons until 3:30PM, when it will be open for general seating. Vivace! would like to thank our parents and patrons for their cooperation, as we prepare our concert and provide an enjoyable and entertaining concert for everyone.
All choirs are to arrive dressed in their uniforms BEFORE they arrive at Kilworth. The Call Times have been revised from the ones posted on our Calendar from the fall, so please be advised of the following:
REVISED CALL TIMES SCHEDULE
11:45AM - 12:15PM - Section Leaders - Ave Maria
12:10PM - Cathedrals arrive and be seated in the sanctuary
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Ne Timeas Maria
12:30PM - 1:20PM - Fantasia on Christmas Carols (no Strings)
1:10PM - Mixed arrive and be seated in the sanctuary
1:20 - 2:15PM - Wolcum, Hodie, Ukrainian Alleluia, Betehlehemu
2:15PM - (V! Mixed and Cathedrals) 5min water break
2:20PM - 3:10PM - Cathedrals rehearse Fantasia with String Quintet
2:55PM - Kids arrive and gather downstairs in the green room
3:15PM - 3:30PM - Frosty Winter Snow, Bidi Bom, and Sing We Now
3:30PM - House opens for general seating
Please DO NOT arrive late to your call times; as you may observe, we are schedule tight with little room to make up time, so please respect your fellow choir-mates, your section leaders and your directors and arrive on time or a little earlier (if you tend to be late for events). Also for choristers that are here at the start of the day, it would be advantageous that you pack a snack so that you'll have enough energy for the rehearsal and concert.
If you may have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me atChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420. Thank you for you patience and cooperation and we look forward to seeing you at the concert tomorrow evening! :)
Sincerely,
David Nguyen
Ne Timeas Maria Learning Tracks
To all Cathedrals Choristers:
Please visit the following YouTube videos for learning track of our new piece we received last Monday, Ne Timeas Maria by T.L. de Victoria. There are part predominant learning tracks for each section and a full mixed version of all the parts. Please take some personal time to practice with the learning tracks, so that we can really explore the artistry of this piece and not notes at rehearsal. Happy Practicing!
Sincerely,
The Choir Manager and the Vivace! Staff
The Great Pumpkin Visits Vivace! - Halloween Rehearsal
Dear Vivace! Ghouls and Goblins;
As many of you have already seen on the calendar, our next Vivace! rehearsal lands on, October 31st, Halloween! Vivace! would like to HIGHLY encourage all of our choristers to come to rehearsal in your Halloween costumes (please, no masks!) and join us for the special Halloween rehearsals and costume contest. See the the slight time change to accommodate our busy ghouls and goblins!
Schedule:
V! Kids: 4-5pm
V! Mixed AND Cathedrals: 5-6pm
**Everyone is released at 6pm to enjoy your own Halloween parties and trick-or-treating!**
Vivace! 1st Costume Contest
Vivace! will be holding a costume contest for the choristers with the best costume. We will have two winners, one from V! Kids and another from V! Mixed, voted by your very own section leaders. So come dressed in your Halloween finest and you may be the winner of best costume at Vivace! and take home a prize! Remember, NO MASKS!
If you have questions about our special Halloween rehearsal, please contact the Choir Manager at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420.
Happy Scaring!!!
Sincerely,
The Choir Manager and the Vivace! Staff
As many of you have already seen on the calendar, our next Vivace! rehearsal lands on, October 31st, Halloween! Vivace! would like to HIGHLY encourage all of our choristers to come to rehearsal in your Halloween costumes (please, no masks!) and join us for the special Halloween rehearsals and costume contest. See the the slight time change to accommodate our busy ghouls and goblins!
Schedule:
V! Kids: 4-5pm
V! Mixed AND Cathedrals: 5-6pm
**Everyone is released at 6pm to enjoy your own Halloween parties and trick-or-treating!**
Vivace! 1st Costume Contest
Vivace! will be holding a costume contest for the choristers with the best costume. We will have two winners, one from V! Kids and another from V! Mixed, voted by your very own section leaders. So come dressed in your Halloween finest and you may be the winner of best costume at Vivace! and take home a prize! Remember, NO MASKS!
If you have questions about our special Halloween rehearsal, please contact the Choir Manager at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420.
Happy Scaring!!!
Sincerely,
The Choir Manager and the Vivace! Staff
All-Bethel Community (ABC) Day Performance - October 15th
Vivace! Performance at ABC Day – Saturday, October 15, 2011
All Bethel Community (ABC) Day is fun-filled day that will give families a chance to assemble to see all the wonderful things that are offered in our own Bethel community. School performance groups in our Bethel schools will be showcased at ABC Day. Since the Vivace! Choral Program is Bethel’s afterschool community choral program and we have so many choristers in the Bethel School District, they would like to feature Vivace! at this year’s ABC Day. The day will be filled with good food, excellent performances, and fun activities and a great event to show the community the fun and high-caliber choral program that Vivace! has to offer our Bethel community . For more information about the Vivace! Performances at ABC Day, please stay tuned to the Vivace! website, Vivace! Calendar, Facebook or contact the Choir Manager, David Nguyen, at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com.
ABC Day Location
Graham-Kapowsin High School
22100 108th Ave E
Graham, WA 98338
Itinerary of Vivace! Performances at ABC Day
8am Gather in the GKHS Choir Room (arrive in Uniform-see below)
8:15am (SHARP!) V! Cathedrals warm-ups in the Choir Room. (Include current and last-year Cathedral performers)
9-9:45am [COMMONS PEROFRMANCE] – Vivace! Cathedrals Choir - Commons Stairwell, upper Mezzanine and Windows.
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
Blackbird/I Will
Bohemian Rhapsody
Africa
Other a cappella works the group recommends
10am All Vivace! Kids and V! Mixed QUIETLY gather in the GKHS Choir Room.
10:45-11:30am [THEATRE PERFORMANCE] – ALL Vivace Choirs – GKHS Auditorium
Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
Walk Together, Children
Beauty and the Beast
May the Road Rise to Meet You
**ALL CHORISTERS SHOULD PLAN TO REMAIN FROM THEIR DESIGNATED GATHERING TIMES TO THE LAST VIVACE! PERFORMANCE**
Uniforms
For ABC Day all choristers will be in informal uniform:
Vivace! Navy Polo or a plain Navy Polo
Khaki Dress Pants
Brown Dress Shoes (Brown sandals or Tennis shoes (not tattered) are OK)
For more information about uniforms, please contact our Uniform Coordinator, Tesla Hahn at Uniforms@vivacechoral.com.
Extended Rehearsal for Kids Choir tonight!
To Vivace! Kids Choristers and Parents:
As a reminder from last Monday's handout, Vivace! will be performing at the All-Bethel Community (ABC) Day on Saturday, October 15th. In preparation of our performance, we have asked Vivace! Kids choristers (returning and new) to join the Vivace! Mixed choir from 5pm to 6pm to prepare and rehearse our Beauty and the Beast set. If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Choir Manager at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com.
See everyone at rehearsal tonight starting at 4pm.
Sincerely,
David Nguyen, Choir Manager
To Cathedrals Auditionees...
UPDATE: To Cathedrals Auditionees: We will have another day of audition work at tonight's Cathedrals rehearsal, so we hope you all have been practicing with the Beati quorum via learning tracks on YouTube. If not, find sometime today to practice before Cathedrals. You can find the links to the learning tracks below or visit our page on Facebook. Happy Practicing!!!
Beati Quorum Via Learning Tracks
To Cathedrals, Section Leaders and Cathedrals auditioners:
Please visit the following YouTube videos for learning track of Beati quorum via. Please start practicing and for those auditioning, you never know if you are going to be heard again next week! Don't be the one caught not practicing if you are wanting to be in Cathedrals. Happy practicing!!!!
Auditions for the 2011-12 Season…
Vivace! Choral Program is open for auditions for our 2011-12 season for all three choirs.
Our Vivace! Kids choir is made up of students primarily in 4th through 6th grade, with some exceptional and focused 3rd graders with unchanged voices. The Vivace! Mixed choir is our mass choir, which consists of students 6th through 12th grade, changed/changing voices and with general music knowledge. And finally our Cathedrals choir is our flagship choir, which consists of students 8th through 12th grade with changed voices and advanced music knowledge.
Through the Vivace! Choral Program your child will develop musical knowledge and skills, and as they progress through the program, these skills will continue to develop. The foundation of Vivace! is based in our mentoring program, elementary music specialist and choral conductors throughout the Bethel School District are mentors in Vivace! so there is a continuity of learning that begins at Vivace! and continues to the schools and vice versa. Also, there is mentoring that occurs in our choristers as well, the Cathedrals choir, will mentor our Mixed choir and in turn our Mixed choir mentors our Kids choir mentors.
WHO?: All New Vivace! singers (elementary through high school) are invited.
WHEN?: Starts Monday, September 12th (new students should contact our Choir Manager, David Nguyen, at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or Auditions@vivacechoral.com for information and/or to setup an audition).
WHERE ARE REHEARSALS AT?: Liberty Junior High (7319 Eustis Hunt Road E., Spanaway right next to Pioneer Valley Elementary) in the Choir Room, every Monday.
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Vivace! Choral Program is on Facebook. Visit Vivace! at www.facebook.com/vivacechoralprogram to follow Vivace!, watch video clips from performances, and see upcoming events and concerts by Vivace!
Vivace! choirs have been featured in concert at The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and The Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.; the Abbey Bach Festival in Mt. Angel, Oregon; and in cathedrals from Seattle to San Francisco along America’s scenic West Coast. The Cathedrals Choir performed in Austria at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg and Vienna, with additional formal concerts at Melk Abbey and the Matthias Church in Budapest, Hungary. The choir has also been featured in the Seattle Symphony’s Benaroya Hall and Tacoma’s Pantages Theater. Singers have performed with the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Harvey Felder and under the direction of Dr. Geoffrey Boers of the University of Washington. Vivace! choirs have also been featured in concert with the inimitable Peter Schickele, a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach. They have appeared several times on classical radio broadcasts and have been featured in Seattle’s Argosy Christmas Ship Festivals.
The Vivace! Choral Program offers a continuous and comprehensive 4th-12th grade mixed choral experience for students as a supplement to the musical offerings of the regular school day.
Vivace! uses a strong educational mentoring model, in which each choir is “mentored” by students from the next level in the organization. Additionally, a small number of novice educators and college students who plan to teach music are selected as section leaders for the Cathedrals Choir.
While students receive instruction in vocal technique, theory, history, movement and performance, Vivace! provides young music educators the opportunity to practice and hone their artistic skills in a nurturing environment. The choristers perform a wide variety of music; from the sophisticated motet to satisfyingly silly and choreographed pieces. Always delightful, Vivace! choirs invite, inspire and entertain all.
Vivace! Orphans raised the performance bar at the Bethel School District Choral Festival
Vivace! Orphans raised the performance bar at the Bethel School District Choral Festival
Congratulations to the Vivace! Kids, Mixed and Cathedrals choirs for an amazing and entertaining performance at this year Bethel School District Choral Festival on Wednesday, March 23rd at GKHS. Our performance was the talk of the district from teachers to high district officials. Our performance set the bar for the entire night and what a wonderful night of amazing singing that was. Thank you for being professional musicians and entertaining your audience, the choirs deserve a pat on the back for your performance!!!
Check out Vivace! Orphan Set at the Bethel School District Choral Festival!
If you are interested in Singing with Vivace! or know of someone who would like to sing, have them come down to our rehearsal on Monday, April 11th. Vivace! is auditioning choristers for our V! Kids and V! Mixed choirs For more information, please contact our Choir Manager, David Nguyen, at ChoirManager@vivacechoral.com or by phone at (206) 310-5420. Rehearsals are held on Mondays at Liberty Jr. High School on 7319 Eustis Hunt Rd E in Spanaway, WA. We hope to see you at rehearsal!!!
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